Whether or not we choose to believe it, there is a game being played in school systems across the nation. We focus less on how a student is learning and instead point the focus on what can make the education system look better. We focus less on how students can actually thrive and more on how our schools can stay in budget. Today we live in a world where the bare minimum is enough. Rarely do we find administration that actually care about the well-being of a student or the knowledge that they're gaining. Children are smart and crafty. They've been living in a world with the same game for far too long, and as a result, they have found a way to cheat the system.
Children today do the bare minimum, and so do the teachers. Teachers may say "read chapters 1-3 and write down the answers to these questions" but all the kids choose to do is write down the answers by skimming pages or by looking it up online. In my opinion, There is no longer any "fun" in school.
There is no place for a child to expand their mind, no place to be creative, to thrive outside of the books. There are some kids who actually do the assigned homework correctly, read FULLY, but the truth is that there is nothing that the teachers really can do. The kids are smart enough to cheat the system and cheat it well, so well that you can't tell the difference between the cheaters and the ones who are actually doing the full work.
More or less, we all cheat the system. The A students, the F students, the teachers and everyone in between. The A students say exactly what the teacher wants to hear, and the teachers can only accept one type of answer, completely closed for interpretation. The A students know this game well. They know which information to pick out of a reading, what parts to study. Each person in the school community plays a role in this game, whether they know it or not.
There are no grades based on creativity, but instead grades for obedience, and following deadlines. The concepts a child learns in school are more or less to see how much a child can memorize, a less to help the student grow and enhance their mind and succeed in the real world.
Children today do the bare minimum, and so do the teachers. Teachers may say "read chapters 1-3 and write down the answers to these questions" but all the kids choose to do is write down the answers by skimming pages or by looking it up online. In my opinion, There is no longer any "fun" in school.
There is no place for a child to expand their mind, no place to be creative, to thrive outside of the books. There are some kids who actually do the assigned homework correctly, read FULLY, but the truth is that there is nothing that the teachers really can do. The kids are smart enough to cheat the system and cheat it well, so well that you can't tell the difference between the cheaters and the ones who are actually doing the full work.
More or less, we all cheat the system. The A students, the F students, the teachers and everyone in between. The A students say exactly what the teacher wants to hear, and the teachers can only accept one type of answer, completely closed for interpretation. The A students know this game well. They know which information to pick out of a reading, what parts to study. Each person in the school community plays a role in this game, whether they know it or not.
There are no grades based on creativity, but instead grades for obedience, and following deadlines. The concepts a child learns in school are more or less to see how much a child can memorize, a less to help the student grow and enhance their mind and succeed in the real world.